Smells Like Lautréamont’s Spirit

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arts and art history

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published 13/09/2007

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In 1790, Immanuel Kant published an essay that read as complicated as the art he sought to promote. “Critique of Judgment” serves as the ultimate philosophy of aesthetics, proclaiming “Genius is the talent (or natural gift) which gives rule to art” (Kant 150). Kant’s judgments define “true” art as solely deriving from intellect. Not only does his notion of art as reserved for brilliant minds exclude most people in general, but also rejects the value of emotion. Instead, people are encouraged to survive strictly on logic and ignore politics. Such disparity between mind and body, reason and emotion, isolates humanity from the very nature which makes us human. Kant even goes a step further to categorize art though gender: men compose the intellectual genius and women, the emotional barbaric. However, over two-hundred years later, the Avante-Garde movement unleashed the definitive rebuttal against its highly aesthetic predecessors—extreme emotion. An innovator of the Avante-Garde, Lautréamont employs the concept of negation to wage a war against aestheticism in art. In Les Chants de Maldoror, his exercise in shock value subtly implores us to feel anger at the tolerance of injustice that aestheticism encouraged. Were his tactics successful in spreading anger and other emotion as both a reaction to and inspiration for art?

A collective group of female music producers and consumers alike use sounds and lyrics to express outrage to 'reject the forms of the middle-class, white, youth culture they have inherited??
Here, at the beginning of the book, Lautréamont plays instigator in immediately arousing reactions of disgust.
Yet, Maldoror's own 'pity for the unfortunate' is a reoccurring theme of Lautréamont; such deep pity is symbolic of rich emotion and intolerance of injustice.
Similarly, Riot Grrrls use negation in the form out outrage to perpetuate urgent emotional responses to everyday injustices faced by women
In addition, the language used by Riot Grrrls is an answer to masculine language in rock
The use of screaming in the Riot Grrrl movement also represents a voice of negation
Lautréamont's character, Maldoror, experiences a similar release: In describing another grotesque encounter of injustice, Maldoror responds, ''I quaked like the lava inside of a volcano.
The private universe inner-nature of a woman'including but not limited to sexuality and experiences of patriarchal violence'becomes tangible because of the public display